JANUARY 6-12: NATIONAL; CROWN HEIGHTS, CONTINUED

A new trial was ordered for two black men convicted in the fatal stabbing of a Hasidic Jew in 1991 in racial rioting in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. A federal appeals court ruled that the judge at the trial of Lemrick Nelson Jr. and Charles Price had improperly manipulated jury selection so that there would not be too many African-American jurors and two few Jews. Meanwhile, the city agreed to a $400,000 settlement with the family of Gavin Cato, the 7-year-old killed in the car accident that started the violence. Jane Fritsch